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Friday, October 18, 2013

Guest Post & Giveaway ~*~ What Not to Bare by Megan Frampton

If Lady Charlotte Jepstow were around today, she would
likely live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and could sub for one of the characters
in Girls.

She wouldn’t think she was a hipster, but she would act like
one—she would behave as she wanted, without worrying about Society, she would
dress in what pleased her, even if it didn’t match, and she would be open about
what she wanted to know.

(That’s the good side of hipsters—the bad judgey snooty kind
are no fun, and I don’t want to discuss them). She’d probably get excited about
music she’d never heard before, and dive deep into a type of film she found out
about in a very offhanded way (kind of like me and wuxia films).

Like Lena Dunham’s character on Girls, Charlotte would initially be daunted at meeting, and subsequently
becoming involved with Lord David (and David is WAY more attractive than Girls’s Adam), but she would eventually
figure out he liked being with her as much as she liked being with him.

She’d ask a lot of questions, and talk a lot, like Shoshanna,
and she might at times be just as annoying, but would also be just as endearing
at other times.

Charlotte doesn’t have as much in common with Marnie or
Jessa, mostly because the former is too pretty, and the latter is too pretty
and too careless about people’s feelings.

Women who don’t fit into general societal expectations are
often just slotted into another category—whether given the appellation The
Abomination, as Charlotte is, or called a wallflower or a bluestocking, as many
Regency heroines are, or called hipsters or whatever, women who don’t behave as
people think they should are seen as trying to be more than what they are, even
if they are just being who they are in the first place (that’s a big mathy type
sentence, but it makes sense in my head—hopefully it does here). Charlotte
can’t be any other type of person, even if she wants to be, and eventually both
she and David recognize that—and he loves her for it.

WHAT
NOT TO BARE:

A Loveswept Historical Romance

By Megan Frampton

On sale October 14, 2013

ISBN: 978-0-345-54173-4

Published by Loveswept

Blurb

In Megan Frampton’s
witty historical romance, a woman is judged by her gown, and a man by his
reputation—until both are shed in one sexy moment of seduction.

Lady Charlotte
Jepstow certainly knows how to make an impression—a terrible one. Each one of
her ball gowns is more ostentatiously ugly than the one before. Even she has
been forced to wonder: Is she unmarried because of her abysmal wardrobe, or
does she wear clashing clothing because she doesn’t want to be pursued in the
first place? But when Charlotte meets Lord David Marchston, suddenly a little
courtship doesn’t sound so bad after all.

David will be the first to admit he’s made
some mistakes. But when he gets yanked from his post by his superiors, he is
ordered to do the unthinkable to win back his position: woo his commander’s
niece. If David wants his life back, he must use his skills as a negotiator to
persuade society that Charlotte is a woman worth pursuing, despite her rather
unusual “flair” for color. But David does such a terrific job that he develops
an unexpected problem, one that violates both his rakish mentality and his
marching orders: He’s starting to fall in love.

Megan Frampton
majored in English literature at Barnard College, with a double minor in
political science and religion. She worked in the music industry for fifteen
years, editing and writing music reviews for a music-industry trade magazine
and eventually becoming the editor in chief. Frampton married one of her former
interns and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with him and her son. When she isn’t
writing, she serves as the community manager for the romance novel website
Heroes and Heartbreakers.

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